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  1. What I'm looking to do is have all my cable TV stations on my PC, but be able BROWSE the stations with the station listing menus that a lot cable providers are offering today. Also, to be able to select shows and have them record (without having to enter in times as I would when I use my VCR to record TV shows).
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    Here's a website you'd be interested in for certain:

    http://www.byopvr.com/

    As for trying to browse, record and view your cable stations, look into any of the myriad of TV Tuner cards out there. Depending on your needs they can be under $50USD or more than $500USD.

    Happy hunting!

    TTWC
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  3. I am in the same situation BUT on digital cable, HD.
    Is there a card that can accept Cable Card or record the HD signal after the decryption (fireware or component)?
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    sorinicu, check out the link I provided in my previous post. There are numerous people using HD digital cable as their input, and there are options for those who want HD signal capture capability.

    Best Wishes!

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    Having built a PVR, it's a handy device when you need to record long runners (i.e. my son has a habit of locating 24 hr cartoon marathons) and want better quality than DVD recorders have on 6 hr mode (UGH).

    Anyway: this is what I used:

    old Compaq case - LP PCI slots (that's Low Profile) - won't go that route again, too hard to locate cards, too limited on the choices you have. One redeeming quality: It is only 3 or 4 inches high, so doesnt stand out in the video rack.

    removal hard disc bay (turn it off, slide it out, take to other PC for editing)

    Hauppauge PVR-150 LP PCI card. 250 or 350 would've been better, but I'm cheap.

    1GB RAM. Actually this is in excess, as the PVR150LP has a built in MPEG2 encoder - it does not hardly use the processor or memory AT ALL.

    40GB HDD that i had laying about.

    MoBo that I had.

    RAM that I had.

    Total Cost: probably about $200 in components, plus my time to set it up.
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    Sounds like a simple enough setup, classfour. I was wondering, did you have any problems sharing that 40GB hard drive with the OS? I built a PC-based PVR and used a 60GB for my OS drive and a 250GB for the capture drive. I wouldn't have wanted to have my OS drive thrashing around while attempting to record on HQ setting, so I opted for a separate capture drive. I was just wondering your thoughts on sharing the OS partition with the capturing partition?

    Cheers!

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